Do market demands drive the development of new software or is it the other way round & the new software allows the market to grow. To me its a blend, the visionaries in any market push for the new... improved software to work smarter... but with out a strong market demanding new & improved services .... its a toss up.
I was listening to NPR this weekend and out of the blue there was an interview with the Sex editor of Wired Magazine. She was talking about Web 2.0 and the porn industry. The gist of the interview was this: historically, sex and porn have been technology drivers. But for some reason, the porn industry seems to be lagging in Web 2.0 options. The first premise is obviously true. Nobody with half a brain seriously thinks that the internet and broadband would have developed as quickly as they did were it not for porn demand. But you can go back even further. Porn was a major driving force behind VHS and home movies (privacy and secrecy) - guys didn't have to go out of their homes to get a porn fix. The fact is that porn has driven technological advance. I say that without a moral judgment. It's just a fact. So why migh
Porn 2.0: Is the porn industry missing out on Web 2.0?
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